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en1977: The Year Pop Broke - 'Lust For Life' And 'The Idiot' Re-Assessedhttps://www.clashmusic.com/features/1977-the-year-pop-broke-lust-for-life-and-the-idiot-re-assessed
<div class="field field-name-field-image field-type-image field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" rel="og:image rdfs:seeAlso" resource="https://www.clashmusic.com/sites/default/files/styles/article_feature/public/field/image/Iggy%20Pop%20Barry%20Plummer019_0.jpg?itok=JO9qDvUq"><a href="/features/1977-the-year-pop-broke-lust-for-life-and-the-idiot-re-assessed"><img typeof="foaf:Image" src="https://www.clashmusic.com/sites/default/files/styles/article_feature/public/field/image/Iggy%20Pop%20Barry%20Plummer019_0.jpg?itok=JO9qDvUq" width="628" height="404" alt="" /></a></div><div class="field-item odd" rel="og:image rdfs:seeAlso" resource="https://www.clashmusic.com/sites/default/files/styles/article_feature/public/field/image/Bowie%20Barry%20Plummer.jpg?itok=xU7NHLsF"><a href="/features/1977-the-year-pop-broke-lust-for-life-and-the-idiot-re-assessed"><img typeof="foaf:Image" src="https://www.clashmusic.com/sites/default/files/styles/article_feature/public/field/image/Bowie%20Barry%20Plummer.jpg?itok=xU7NHLsF" width="628" height="999" alt="" /></a></div><div class="field-item even" rel="og:image rdfs:seeAlso" resource="https://www.clashmusic.com/sites/default/files/styles/article_feature/public/field/image/Iggy%20Pop%20Barry%20Plummer005.jpg?itok=FhKzikmY"><a href="/features/1977-the-year-pop-broke-lust-for-life-and-the-idiot-re-assessed"><img typeof="foaf:Image" src="https://www.clashmusic.com/sites/default/files/styles/article_feature/public/field/image/Iggy%20Pop%20Barry%20Plummer005.jpg?itok=FhKzikmY" width="628" height="971" alt="" /></a></div><div class="field-item odd" rel="og:image rdfs:seeAlso" resource="https://www.clashmusic.com/sites/default/files/styles/article_feature/public/field/image/Iggy%20Pop%20Barry%20Plummer006.jpg?itok=jCE7zif3"><a href="/features/1977-the-year-pop-broke-lust-for-life-and-the-idiot-re-assessed"><img typeof="foaf:Image" src="https://www.clashmusic.com/sites/default/files/styles/article_feature/public/field/image/Iggy%20Pop%20Barry%20Plummer006.jpg?itok=jCE7zif3" width="628" height="971" alt="" /></a></div><div class="field-item even" rel="og:image rdfs:seeAlso" resource="https://www.clashmusic.com/sites/default/files/styles/article_feature/public/field/image/Iggy%20Pop%20Barry%20Plummer021_edited-2.jpg?itok=Ddb9_Nca"><a href="/features/1977-the-year-pop-broke-lust-for-life-and-the-idiot-re-assessed"><img typeof="foaf:Image" src="https://www.clashmusic.com/sites/default/files/styles/article_feature/public/field/image/Iggy%20Pop%20Barry%20Plummer021_edited-2.jpg?itok=Ddb9_Nca" width="628" height="970" alt="" /></a></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-article-subtitle field-type-text field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even">A love letter to the most inventive period of Iggy Pop’s most creative period...</div></div></div><div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>It was in <strong>The Stooges</strong>, over three albums between ‘69 and ‘73, that we would see the first phase of the Byronic rock ‘n’ roll reptile they call <strong>Iggy</strong>. The Stooges made a whacked-out kind of bastard music, the likes of which had certainly never been heard before.</p>
<p>The most vital American rock band of the era, their gravelly tones not only predate punk, but transcend it; the group captured a certain kind of sweaty, frustrated teen angst, and combined that with scorching rock that always buzzed with an special kind of danger. The riffs were taut, the basslines like a smack in the chops, and the drums concrete, but the star of the show was Iggy Pop.</p>
<p>Imagine Jim Morrison’s testosterone-fuelled bravado and times it by six hundred and sixty six; that was Iggy. Live, he’d cover himself in peanut butter, and he’d writhe, bellow and shriek in pursuit of rock ‘n’ roll divinity.</p>
<p>For my money, his best moment comes on the ‘Raw Power’ album’s ‘Gimme Danger’: amidst a towering middle 8, Iggy belts out an ever escalating “daaaa-nger! Daaaa-ger!” Pure catharsis. He’d turn a very infantile frustration into something far bigger, and far greater.</p>
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<p>But all common knowledge dictates thus; the brighter a star shines, the faster it burns out. This was certainly the case for The Stooges. After the Bowie-produced ‘Raw Power’, the band’s power struggles and drug problems became too much for the band to continue; catty and infantile, the band would sell each other’s equipment to pay for heroin. After a fight at their last gig, as documented on the live album ‘Metallic KO’, The Stooges broke up.</p>
<p>What happened to Iggy? Could this punk singer that captured the imagination like no other just slip away into nothingness? Well, initially, yes. Between 1973 and 1975, before making ‘Kill City’ with James Williamson (which wouldn’t come out til ‘77, anyway, and isn’t really worthy of further mention), Iggy was in a creative wilderness. Drug dependencies and the dissolution of The Stooges left the singer in a bad way, almost reaching a total point, as he checked himself into a neuropsychiatric hospital. But what came next wouldn’t be the total collapse of The Godfather of Punk; it would be total rebirth.</p>
<p>David Bowie, who had produced The Stooges’ ‘Raw Power’, was a longtime friend of Iggy’s. After visiting him in the hospital, David Bowie invited Iggy to join him on his 1976 Station to Station tour. With both of them suffering problems with drug addiction, the pair moved to Berlin, to get away from their respective addictions. Indeed, necessity is the mother of invention, and this duo leaving the US was totally necessary. David Bowie’s Berlin period is revered for the immortal triptych of records he released there; often considered to be his best. However, Iggy Pop’s Berlin albums ‘The Idiot’ and ‘Lust for Life’ is its own special renaissance, and the electric chemistry that the duo had really can’t be understated.</p>
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<p>Working with Bowie, Iggy Pop spent the majority of 1977 working on these two records. It’s rare that the reinvention of a feral punk icon can feel so fresh, but listening back to ‘The Idiot’ and ‘Lust for Life’, we hear some of the most refreshing alternative rock records of all time. They’re Iggy’s own Berlin diptych, and deserve a place of special reverence in the canon of musical history.</p>
<p>‘The Idiot’ is the sound of total rebirth. Smattered with seedy jazz and dazzling vaudeville, it mangles a dirty rock core with something way more interesting. It’s said that Bowie’s fingerprints are all over this, but that does Iggy a disservice. David Bowie certainly took the “role of a director”, but it’s about the whole production. Iggy Pop is the lead actor, cinematographer and screenwriter all at once.</p>
<p>The duo co-wrote all of the material, before infusing it with the unique energy that Iggy Pop can bring to a record. It’s a very dark, brooding and tightly guarded album, but with every listen, the chaos feels more and more orderly.</p>
<p>‘Dum Dum Boys’ is the most poignant song on the record; powerful and unflinching in confronting the torrid four years that had gone up in smoke post-Stooges, it’s a lament to lost friends. Every listen is sure to induce goosebumps unto even the biggest of Iggy-sceptics. In the spoken word intro, Iggy asks: “What happened to Zeke? He’s dead on Jones, man. How about Dave? OD’d on alcohol.” He recounts the tragic demise of his former bandmates atop rhythmic clicking and somber piano, before yowling that “things have been tough without the Dum Dum Boys”.</p>
<p>Yet whilst he looks back, musically Iggy ploughs forward. Swampy guitar wig-outs from Carlos Alomar give the track a real druggy strut, and Iggy’s performance is magnificent. Just a matter of years after setting the template for punk singers, he had found a new voice. Wiser and older, Iggy’s singing on ‘Dum Dum Boys’ is hypnotic and totally novel, as it rises from the woozy musical detritus that his ‘Idiot’ band create.</p>
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<p>‘Mass Production’ is the closing track on ‘The Idiot’, and it again lays down a bold marker for a new breed of experimental rock music. As Iggy Pop despairs at modern life’s more dehumanising aspects, he thematically and musically preempts the moodier post-punk, goth-rock and industrial music that would come in the following months.</p>
<p>Iggy’s tilted croon sits atop a miasma of brilliant musical ideas; a dizzyingly slow guitar riff and a Bowie sax line gives the song a sordid strut, before an insane detuned repetitive synthesiser makes the track take off into heady oblivion. It essentially sounds like the Tardis would, if William Burroughs was a guest writer on an episode of Doctor Who.</p>
<p>That’s not to say that this album is a move away from rock music as we know it. Merely a malignant mutation. On ‘China Girl’, Iggy Pop elevates a very solid pop song into a totally cathartic masterpiece. Of course, Bowie would later turn the song into an eighties pop highlight, but under Iggy’s jurisdiction it’s drenched in fear and paranoia.</p>
<p>During the relatively pedestrian opening verses, Iggy sounds as though he’s about to fall asleep to the chug of Alomar’s guitar – but by the escalating middle 8, he snaps into visceral action. This song has a euphoric payoff that is sadly absent from Bowie’s ‘Let’s Dance’ version. The lines “I’ll give you television, I’ll give you eyes of blue” come straight outta the back of Iggy’s throat, as he gargles; “I’ll ruin everything that you are”.</p>
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<p>Every track on this album is some kinda highlight. ‘Tiny Girls’ features some wonderful soloing by monsieur Bowie on the saxophone, whilst ‘Nightclubbing’ has a depraved strut that embodies cool, sexy and evil at the same time. Endlessly creative, there’s something new in every listen; another texture, another lyric, another sound that would go on to influence generations of sonic experimenters. It’s remarkable, then, that after releasing the album that would be the high water mark in a very great career, that Iggy Pop would release another transcendentally great record a matter of months later.</p>
<p>‘Lust For Life’ was released in the August of 1977. Whilst ‘Lust For Life’ it maintains a certain tilted quality, the Kafkaesque darkness is very much succeeded by the image of reckless abandon conjured by the title. ‘The Idiot’ is a lurcher of an album that slinks out of its own neuroses sneakily; ‘Lust For Life’ makes a daring run in broad daylight for freedom. ‘The Idiot’ sounds like 70s Berlin, but ‘Lust For Life’ combines this with the happy-go-lucky American smirk of the emigrating chancer.</p>
<p>Musically, it’s all about momentum and energy. It was written, recorded and mixed in little over a week, with Bowie taking co-writing duties yet again, and has a feeling of total spontaneity. The title track is the prime example of this; drums gallop, spurred on by an iconic bassline and high-pitched backing vocals. Iggy repeats that he’s got “a lust for life” over and over, a mantra that sees optimism creep into his music for possibly the first time ever. Perhaps most notable for its inclusion as the theme tune to the 1996 adaptation to Trainspotting (alongside ‘Nightclubbing’), there’s a very certain mood and energy that this number embodies to a generation, and rightly so.</p>
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<p>This momentum, the idea of forward motion, pulses through the rest of the album like a heart beating 4/4. The album’s second iconic cut, ‘The Passenger’ is a prime example of this. Atop a cantering guitar riff, Iggy’s lyrics are those of the eternal observer. Iggy Pop is ‘The Passenger’, and not only does he observe everything, but he really sees it.</p>
<p>The rest of ‘Lust For Life’ falls more easily into the rock category, but great songs still pop up. Bowie’s backing vocals on ‘Tonight’ harmonise with Iggy’s croon beautifully, whilst there’s a divine air of Little Richard about ‘Some Weird Sin’. Meanwhile, ‘Turn Blue’ is the song that would later give the band Warmduscher their entire sound, as a redemptive Iggy rasps; “Jesus, this is Iggy”.</p>
<p>It was with The Stooges then, that Iggy Pop first made an impact on the annals of musical history. However, it’s in Berlin with David Bowie, that he really found himself as an artist. ‘The Idiot’ and ‘Lust For Life’, the Berlin diptych, are Iggy’s best work; beginning with a record as dark as any other, before discovering cause for optimism, these two albums capture a snapshot of Iggy Pop’s vital redemptive arc as an artist. Endlessly inventive and brilliant as all hell, these are two of the great albums.</p>
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<p><em>Newly expanded editions of 'The Idiot' and 'Lust For Life' are out now. </em></p>
<p>Words: <strong>Cal Cashin</strong><br />
Photography: <strong>Barry Plummer</strong></p>
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</div></div></div>Wed, 03 Jun 2020 13:05:04 +0000ClashMusic113497 at https://www.clashmusic.comhttps://www.clashmusic.com/features/1977-the-year-pop-broke-lust-for-life-and-the-idiot-re-assessed#comments10 Things You Never Knew About... Iggy Pophttps://www.clashmusic.com/features/10-things-you-never-knew-about-iggy-pop
<div class="field field-name-field-image field-type-image field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" rel="og:image rdfs:seeAlso" resource="https://www.clashmusic.com/sites/default/files/styles/article_feature/public/field/image/Iggy%20Pop%20Barry%20Plummer019.jpg?itok=HY2g4NDX"><a href="/features/10-things-you-never-knew-about-iggy-pop"><img typeof="foaf:Image" src="https://www.clashmusic.com/sites/default/files/styles/article_feature/public/field/image/Iggy%20Pop%20Barry%20Plummer019.jpg?itok=HY2g4NDX" width="628" height="403" alt="" /></a></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-article-subtitle field-type-text field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even">Pinning down the Godfather of punk...</div></div></div><div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>Today we thank God (or indeed, him downstairs) for the existence of one of the greatest frontmen operating within the realms of rock music.</p>
<p>Happy birthday, <strong>Iggy Pop!</strong></p>
<p>Anything but a passenger we thought we’d take a closer look at the enigmatic contortionist.</p>
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<p><strong>1.</strong> Raised in Michigan to a working-class family, they originally sacrificed a bedroom for Iggy to practice drumming. The first band he was in called the Iguanas had him on drums, not leaping around the stage as we know him for now.</p>
<p><strong>2.</strong> After meeting Dave Alexander, Scott and Ron Ashton, Iggy formed the band with them in Michigan where they would originally call themselves the Psychedelic Stooges.</p>
<p><strong>3. </strong>For his album ‘Post Pop Depression’ Iggy enlisted the help of Josh Homme to create the record. Initially starting the conversation with a simple text, it led to them spending time together in the desert with Homme’s bandmate Dean Fertitia and Arctic Monkeys drummer Matt Helders.</p>
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<p><strong>4. </strong>When David Bowie came calling to work with the band on their third album ‘Raw Power’ the band set out on a trip to London. Although, they were originally turned away from customs, only spared by Bowie’s manager Tony DeFries, who turned up to persuade customs otherwise.</p>
<p><strong>5. </strong>Whilst DeFries had saved the band, he soon regretted it, playing a show in London the performance was so shocking that DeFries ensured that the band would never play in the UK again. He later rejected every recording that the band made over in London, before leaving it to Bowie to finish ‘Raw Power’.</p>
<p><strong>6.</strong> Iggy has over 58 acting credits on IMDB and his film debut was in Nico: Evening of Light a film about the Velvet Underground singer. He was put in whiteface carrying a large cross and made out with bloody mannequins which is just another day in the life really.</p>
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<p><strong>7. </strong>Iggy Pop is often hailed as the inventor of the stage dive, something that has become a staple of the Rockstar performance. The earliest recording of him doing this is from 1970 at the Midsummer Rock Festival. He first lathered himself in peanut butter, which we’re sure was a delightful experience for the crowd.</p>
<p><strong>8.</strong> Iggy Pop’s live shows have been known to occupy two very different ends of the spectrum.</p>
<p>On one hand he could be seen either shirtless, in a latex bikini and maybe even dry humping the microphone. But there was a terrifying aspect to his performance too, where he would stab himself with broken glass or knives on stage, once even carving an X into his chest. Later dubbing the performance The Murder Of A Virgin.</p>
<p>Iggy was once even involved in a bar brawl with a biker gang after having eggs hurled at him, something that you can hear on The Stooges live album 'Metallica KO'.</p>
<p><strong>9. </strong>Iggy’s real name is James Newell Osterberg Jr. He chose his stage name because he thought it sounded good for show business. Let’s be honest James and the Stooges doesn’t quite have the same ring to it.</p>
<p><strong>10.</strong> The production of Iggy’s song ‘Lust For Life’ shows just how intelligent the man is. You wouldn’t think it but most of the lyrics on the song are ad-libbed, meaning that one of his most successful tracks was made purely in the moment and utterly instinctual.</p>
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<p><em>Iggy Pop will release expanded editions of 'The Idiot' and 'Lust For Life' on May 29th. </em></p>
<p><i>Listen to our audio interview, Punk's Great Survivor with Iggy Pop <a href="https://www.clashmusic.com/features/punks-great-survivor-iggy-pop"><u><strong>here</strong></u></a></i><i>.</i></p>
<p>Words: <strong>Matthew Pywell</strong><br />
Photo Credit: <strong>Barry Plummer</strong></p>
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</div></div></div>Tue, 21 Apr 2020 11:07:27 +0000ClashMusic112807 at https://www.clashmusic.comhttps://www.clashmusic.com/features/10-things-you-never-knew-about-iggy-pop#commentsIggy Pop To Re-Visit 'Lust For Life', 'The Idiot'https://www.clashmusic.com/news/iggy-pop-to-re-visit-lust-for-life-the-idiot
<div class="field field-name-field-image field-type-image field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" rel="og:image rdfs:seeAlso" resource="https://www.clashmusic.com/sites/default/files/styles/article_feature/public/field/image/image_22.png?itok=PsarJx6-"><a href="/news/iggy-pop-to-re-visit-lust-for-life-the-idiot"><img typeof="foaf:Image" src="https://www.clashmusic.com/sites/default/files/styles/article_feature/public/field/image/image_22.png?itok=PsarJx6-" width="451" height="289" alt="" /></a></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-article-subtitle field-type-text field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even">Unheard material has been unearthed...</div></div></div><div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p><strong>Iggy Pop</strong> has outlined plans to re-visit his iconic albums 'The Idiot' and 'Lust For Life'.</p>
<p>Bowie, Berlin, and a great deal of Russian literature... Iggy Pop's transition from the wreckage of the Stooges into fully fledged solo artist resulted in some incredible material.</p>
<p>Now the Bowie-produced albums 'The Idiot' and 'Lust For Life' are set to gain a deluxe re-issue, released through UMC on May 29th.</p>
<p>Alongside the deluxe editions, fans will be treated to a full 7CD box set featuring a raft of unheard extras, including 'TV Eye Live 1977' and three complete live performances.</p>
<p>A real gold mine for fans, it's the perfect entry point for anyone unfamiliar with this era of Iggy's work.</p>
<p>Check out an alternative mix of 'China Girl' below.</p>
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</div></div></div>Mon, 13 Apr 2020 07:52:50 +0000Robin Murray112681 at https://www.clashmusic.comhttps://www.clashmusic.com/news/iggy-pop-to-re-visit-lust-for-life-the-idiot#commentsWatch Iggy Pop's Video For Lou Reed-Inspired 'We Are The People'https://www.clashmusic.com/news/watch-iggy-pops-video-for-lou-reed-inspired-we-are-the-people
<div class="field field-name-field-image field-type-image field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" rel="og:image rdfs:seeAlso" resource="https://www.clashmusic.com/sites/default/files/styles/article_feature/public/field/image/Iggy%20Pop.jpg?itok=EnKPV4L9"><a href="/news/watch-iggy-pops-video-for-lou-reed-inspired-we-are-the-people"><img typeof="foaf:Image" src="https://www.clashmusic.com/sites/default/files/styles/article_feature/public/field/image/Iggy%20Pop.jpg?itok=EnKPV4L9" width="628" height="374" alt="" /></a></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-article-subtitle field-type-text field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even">It’s a vulnerable, touching performance, released on what would have been Reed’s 78th birthday…</div></div></div><div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p><strong>Iggy Pop</strong> has released intense new visuals, to go with a track inspired by a poem written by the late<strong> Lou Reed</strong>.</p>
<p>The video sees Iggy looking straight to camera, reciting the words ‘We Are The People’, “We are the crystal gaze/Returned through the density and immensity of a berserk nation,” he states.</p>
<p>“We are the victims of the untold manifesto of the lack of depth.” "We are the people without land. We are the people without tradition. We are the people who do not know how to die peacefully and at ease.” The close-up recitation, and unflinching gaze of Iggy Pop is as transfixing as the lyrics are moving.</p>
<p>The words were taken from a 1970 poem written by Lou Reed, and the accompanying visuals released on 2nd March, which would have been the late icon’s 78th birthday. Despite being penned 50 years ago, the words rang true with Iggy Pop very much in contemporary terms.</p>
<p>“That totally resonated with me,” he recently told the BBC. “Like, ‘wham’, like ‘pow’. I thought, ‘My God, this is the country today as I understand it, or at least one legitimate portrayal of the country today.’ It really spoke to me.”</p>
<p>'We Are The People’ appears on his latest LP, ‘Free’, released last autumn. Check out the striking visuals and emotive track now.</p>
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</div></div></div>Tue, 03 Mar 2020 11:13:16 +0000Emma Finamore112012 at https://www.clashmusic.comhttps://www.clashmusic.com/news/watch-iggy-pops-video-for-lou-reed-inspired-we-are-the-people#commentsIggy Pop Prepares To Collect Lifetime Achievement Grammyhttps://www.clashmusic.com/news/iggy-pop-prepares-to-collect-lifetime-achievement-grammy
<div class="field field-name-field-image field-type-image field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" rel="og:image rdfs:seeAlso" resource="https://www.clashmusic.com/sites/default/files/styles/article_feature/public/field/image/CaTk98MWYAA97Yz_1.jpg?itok=7P_rflpy"><a href="/news/iggy-pop-prepares-to-collect-lifetime-achievement-grammy"><img typeof="foaf:Image" src="https://www.clashmusic.com/sites/default/files/styles/article_feature/public/field/image/CaTk98MWYAA97Yz_1.jpg?itok=7P_rflpy" width="598" height="310" alt="" /></a></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-article-subtitle field-type-text field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even">This billboard salute is pretty damn cool...</div></div></div><div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p><strong>Iggy Pop</strong> will claim a Lifetime Achievement gong at the Grammy awards tonight (January 26th).</p>
<p>The Godfather of Punk remains a thoroughly illicit, completely outrageous live experience, while his studio work retains a staggering degree of potency.</p>
<p>Recently packing out London's Barbican venue, Iggy remains a beloved mainstay of 6Music.</p>
<p>Tonight - January 26th - he'll pick up a Lifetime Achievement award, and truly no one has deserved it more.</p>
<p>There's a damn fine billboard saluting his work in Los Angeles, too - check it out below.</p>
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<p dir="ltr" lang="en" xml:lang="en">This outpour of love for Mr. Pop can be seen in LA. Well worded, <a href="https://twitter.com/LomaVistaRC?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@LomaVistaRC</a>!<br />
Joining in to once again congratulate Mr. Pop on his Lifetime Achievement <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/GRAMMYs?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#GRAMMYs</a> As <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/TeamIggy?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#TeamIggy</a> we work as we play and play as we work! <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/iggypop?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#iggypop</a> <a href="https://t.co/28kZLkeC4e">pic.twitter.com/28kZLkeC4e</a></p>
— Iggy Pop (@IggyPop) <a href="https://twitter.com/IggyPop/status/1221479466637103105?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 26, 2020</a></blockquote>
<script async="" src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script><p>Grammy Awards 2020 takes place on January 26th.</p>
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</div></div></div>Sun, 26 Jan 2020 18:46:07 +0000Robin Murray111361 at https://www.clashmusic.comhttps://www.clashmusic.com/news/iggy-pop-prepares-to-collect-lifetime-achievement-grammy#commentsIggy Pop Jumps In With Cage The Elephant For 'Broken Boy'https://www.clashmusic.com/news/iggy-pop-jumps-in-with-cage-the-elephant-for-broken-boy
<div class="field field-name-field-image field-type-image field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" rel="og:image rdfs:seeAlso" resource="https://www.clashmusic.com/sites/default/files/styles/article_feature/public/field/image/Cage%20the%20Elephant%20-%20Neil%20Krug%20-%20low%20res.jpg?itok=ijzy2FG3"><a href="/news/iggy-pop-jumps-in-with-cage-the-elephant-for-broken-boy"><img typeof="foaf:Image" src="https://www.clashmusic.com/sites/default/files/styles/article_feature/public/field/image/Cage%20the%20Elephant%20-%20Neil%20Krug%20-%20low%20res.jpg?itok=ijzy2FG3" width="628" height="419" alt="" /></a></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-article-subtitle field-type-text field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even">The American band hit the UK next month...</div></div></div><div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p><strong>Iggy Pop</strong> leaps on <strong>Cage The Elephant's</strong> new single 'Broken Boy'.</p>
<p>The American band released new album 'Social Cues' last year, and were rewarded with a Grammy nomination.</p>
<p>Out now, the record will be followed by a lung-bursting UK tour next month, including a show at London's Alexandra Palace on February 22nd.</p>
<p>Album cut 'Broken Boy' gains a full single release, with the Godfather of Punk on backing vocals.</p>
<p>Yep, Iggy Pop slithered into the studio for the session, and his growl pushes Cage The Elephant to debauched new levels.</p>
<p>It's a scorching, hellraising indie rock burner, with 'Broken Boy' done and dusted in less than three minutes.</p>
<p>Tune in now.</p>
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<p>Photo Credit: <strong>Neil Krug</strong></p>
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</div></div></div>Thu, 23 Jan 2020 14:13:00 +0000Robin Murray111320 at https://www.clashmusic.comhttps://www.clashmusic.com/news/iggy-pop-jumps-in-with-cage-the-elephant-for-broken-boy#commentsMac DeMarco Directs Iggy Pop's New 'SONALI' Videohttps://www.clashmusic.com/news/mac-demarco-directs-iggy-pops-new-sonali-video
<div class="field field-name-field-image field-type-image field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" rel="og:image rdfs:seeAlso" resource="https://www.clashmusic.com/sites/default/files/styles/article_feature/public/field/image/Screen%20Shot%202019-11-26%20at%2009.27.23.JPG?itok=WIx1cYzb"><a href="/news/mac-demarco-directs-iggy-pops-new-sonali-video"><img typeof="foaf:Image" src="https://www.clashmusic.com/sites/default/files/styles/article_feature/public/field/image/Screen%20Shot%202019-11-26%20at%2009.27.23.JPG?itok=WIx1cYzb" width="628" height="324" alt="" /></a></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-article-subtitle field-type-text field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even">It&#039;s a lizard themed affair...</div></div></div><div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p><strong>Mac DeMarco</strong> has directed the 'officially unofficial' video for <strong>Iggy Pop's</strong> 'SONALI'.</p>
<p>The song appears on Iggy's new album 'Free', with the man himself recently making a sensational appearance at London's Barbican.</p>
<p>Taken from the record, 'SONALI' has received the DeMarco treatment, with the script being devised by Ruby Sylvain and Leron Thomas.</p>
<p>It's a lizard-themed venture, with the main character played by Tommy Midnight, while his lizard lover is played by Kiera McNally - who is also Mac DeMarco's partner.</p>
<p>Curiously surreal, it follows a running them in Mac DeMarco's work - he played a lizard man in the video for 'Here Comes The Cowboy'.</p>
<p>Tune in now.</p>
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<p>Iggy Pop's 'Free' is out now.</p>
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</div></div></div>Tue, 26 Nov 2019 09:33:42 +0000Robin Murray110540 at https://www.clashmusic.comhttps://www.clashmusic.com/news/mac-demarco-directs-iggy-pops-new-sonali-video#commentsLive Report: Iggy Pop - Barbican, Londonhttps://www.clashmusic.com/live/live-report-iggy-pop-barbican-london
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<p>Yeah, but he’s 72 now, you might say. Hmm, Jim Osterberg is <em>no ordinary</em> 72 year old.</p>
<p>Ig gigs of old are usually full of aggressive theatricality as he throws and contorts himself around whatever floor he happens to be on. But this time we begin sat in our seats, listening to him as he stands still under a spotlight as he performs his new album 'Free'. Apart from the almost ridiculous ‘James Bond’, which doesn’t seem to fit the rest of the record, each song and spoken word track is performed with the mastery of a man at the top of his vocal game. </p>
<p>Describing the album as one, “in which other artists speak for me, but I lend my voice,” and also a product of feeling “drained” following the 2016 tour of his 17th album 'Post Pop Depression', he recently explained his new change of direction: “I began to recoil from guitar riffs in favour of guitar-scapes, from twangs in favour of horns, from back beat in favour of space, and, in large part, from the effluent of my own mind and problems, in favour of trying to interpret the poetry of others.”</p>
<p>Usually an Iggy gig is all about the visual, the experience of watching him dance and flail around. But tonight it’s time to listen. Opening with the sweeping and ethereal titular track 'Free' he repeats, “I wanna be free,” over Leron Thomas’ mournful trumpet.</p>
<p>The stunningly sombre tracks 'Sonali' and 'Glow In The Dark' are breaktakingly beautiful and perfectly fitting for a venue that has the acoustics to hold space for his talented band. And he still manages to perform with a stage presence like no other. His old moves are there, just more refined and less chaotic. </p>
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<p>Later, introducing 'Page' from the new album, he reveals it was written about a break up, “and the damage and weirdness that comes with that.” Twenty minutes later, he performs 'I Want To Go The Beach' from 2009's 'Préliminaires': “It’s about when I was depressed,” he tells us. “I didn’t think I’d ever be able to record it, or find a home for it. I didn’t think I’d ever do it live.”</p>
<p>He’s in a reflective stage in his life and sounds genuinely grateful when he thanks us for listening to these intimate performances. But was this a purely melancholic evening? Na, course not.</p>
<p>Halfway through, Ig tells us “it’s time for some songs from the 70s,” to which the crowd exult. Following a slick performance of 'Sister Midnight' from his 1977 seminal solo album 'The Idiot', we’re now in full blown Iggy mode and 1973 Stooges song 'Death Trip' (with spot on lead guitar licks from Greg Fauque) has members of the audience (me included) leaving their swanky seats and legging it down to the front of the stage as he heads down into the crowd.</p>
<p>Fuck the Barbican, this is Iggy, let’s lose our shit!</p>
<p>Suddenly I’m dancing next to him in a hot sweaty circle and it feels like 1973, my legs go to jelly and my heart’s pounding. In a flash he’s back up on the stage and I’m fully hyped. This is only half way through and I spend the rest of the evening in full worship.</p>
<p>More from 'The Idiot' ('Mass Production' and 'Nightclubbing') plus 70s/80s frenetic numbers 'Run Like A Villain' and 'Five Foot One', he’s over to the crowd again and one woman can’t stop herself from rubbing his stomach and tying her scarf around his knee.</p>
<p>The final track from his new album, 'The Dawn', brings us back to the current Iggy, poignant and brooding. The lyrics talk of, “the few moments that make life any fucking good”, and how, “to lay down is to give up. You’ve got to do something.”</p>
<p>And with that, he closes the night with a full power version of the hilariously wild, 'People, Places, Parties'. Adapted from the Sleaford Mods’ 2009 song 'Chop Chop Chop', it features him recounting various sex and drug-related mishaps of his rock star past.</p>
<p>As he cries three times in the song, “and somehow, I survived!” the audience are in raptures, celebrating him, loving him, so grateful he’s still here. He stalks off stage, chucking his mic stand, before returning to thank us one more time: “You’ve made me so happy. You are my friends.”</p>
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</div></div></div>Fri, 22 Nov 2019 15:24:58 +0000ClashMusic110509 at https://www.clashmusic.comhttps://www.clashmusic.com/live/live-report-iggy-pop-barbican-london#commentsIggy Pop Confirms EFG London Jazz Festival Performancehttps://www.clashmusic.com/live/iggy-pop-confirms-efg-london-jazz-festival-performance
<div class="field field-name-field-image field-type-image field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" rel="og:image rdfs:seeAlso" resource="https://www.clashmusic.com/sites/default/files/styles/article_feature/public/field/image/Iggy%20Pop%20press%20shot.png?itok=BtftFpTM"><a href="/live/iggy-pop-confirms-efg-london-jazz-festival-performance"><img typeof="foaf:Image" src="https://www.clashmusic.com/sites/default/files/styles/article_feature/public/field/image/Iggy%20Pop%20press%20shot.png?itok=BtftFpTM" width="628" height="423" alt="" /></a></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-article-subtitle field-type-text field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even">He&#039;s playing London&#039;s Barbican venue...</div></div></div><div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p><strong>Iggy Pop </strong>will be heading back to the UK next month to introduce his new critically acclaimed album ‘Free’.</p>
<p>The exclusive show will be held at Barbican on November 21st as part of the EFG London Jazz Festival. The tickets will go on sale at 10am on Friday (October 4th).</p>
<p>The 72 year old released his latest album in the beginning of September of this year and delved into the world of jazz again.</p>
<p>The godfather of punk has already dabbled with this genre, notably on his 2009 album ‘Préliminaires’ and the countless jazz collaborations Pop has worked on over the years - the latest one included lending his vocals to Bobby Previte’s ‘Loneliness Road’.</p>
<p>The musical chameleon has come a long way since his debut with the now legendary punk rock band The Stooges in 1967. Throughout his long standing career he has influenced many artists from authors like Irvine Welsh to musicians like Josh Homme and beyond.</p>
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<p><em>Iggy Pop's album 'Free' is out now.</em></p>
<p>The EFG London Jazz festival will run from November 15th to November 24th.</p>
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</div></div></div>Wed, 02 Oct 2019 15:09:31 +0000ClashMusic109575 at https://www.clashmusic.comhttps://www.clashmusic.com/live/iggy-pop-confirms-efg-london-jazz-festival-performance#commentsGet Up Close With Iggy Pop In 'Loves Missing' Videohttps://www.clashmusic.com/news/get-up-close-with-iggy-pop-in-loves-missing-video
<div class="field field-name-field-image field-type-image field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" rel="og:image rdfs:seeAlso" resource="https://www.clashmusic.com/sites/default/files/styles/article_feature/public/field/image/IggyPop.jpg?itok=oxJqadtP"><a href="/news/get-up-close-with-iggy-pop-in-loves-missing-video"><img typeof="foaf:Image" src="https://www.clashmusic.com/sites/default/files/styles/article_feature/public/field/image/IggyPop.jpg?itok=oxJqadtP" width="628" height="419" alt="" /></a></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-article-subtitle field-type-text field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even">Simon Taylor directs the new clip...</div></div></div><div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p><strong>Iggy Pop</strong> has shared the new video for 'Loves Missing'.</p>
<p>It's heady days for the punk godfather, with new album 'Free' out now.</p>
<p>An unexpected return, it's a textured, nuanced, challenging, and highly personal offering, taking the American icon into a fresh space.</p>
<p>Recently performing 'James Bond' on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon, Iggy pop hit up Jim Jarmusch for a fascinating conversation at 92Y.</p>
<p>Now the singer has showcased the video for album highlight 'Loves Missing', shot on location at Sweat Records in Miami.</p>
<p>Directed by Simon Taylor, it's an up close vision that shows Iggy Pop demonstrating what it means to be free.</p>
<p>Tune in now.</p>
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<p>Iggy Pop will appear in conversation at London's Rough Trade East on October 15th at 1pm.</p>
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</div></div></div>Tue, 01 Oct 2019 16:01:05 +0000Robin Murray109549 at https://www.clashmusic.comhttps://www.clashmusic.com/news/get-up-close-with-iggy-pop-in-loves-missing-video#comments